In a DW interview, Kurt Volker pledges that Washington will not strike a separate deal with Moscow over the heads of Europeans and Ukrainians – but says it is good that all agree the current situation must improve. …read more Source: Deutsche...

Romanian tennis player Alexandra Dulgheru on Sunday won the women’s singles event final of the 25,000-USD Hodmezovasarhely ITF tournament in Hungary, after defeating the Ukrainian Ganna Poznikhirenko in two sets 7-5 6-2. …read more Source:...

Romanian tennis player Alexandra Dulgheru on Sunday won the women’s singles event final of the 25,000-USD Hodmezovasarhely ITF tournament in Hungary, after defeating the Ukrainian Ganna Poznikhirenko in two sets 7-5 6-2. …read more Source:...

German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the world is facing a â€œnew phase of nuclear rearmament,â€ and is in the midst of â€œCold War 2.0.â€ In an interview with German paper Bild, Gabriel spoke of the new â€œice ageâ€ between the West and Russia and the danger of both sides building...

Display of power involving up to 100,000 people in Belarus, Kaliningrad and Russia itself comes against backdrop of strained relations with west‘We know how to live next to Russia’: Lithuania builds border fence with KaliningradRussia is preparing to mount what could be one of its biggest military exercises since the cold war, a display of...

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the United States was committed to helping Ukraine’s military, and sanctions against Russia would remain in place until Moscow stops supporting rebels and returns Crimea. …read more Source: France...

ODESSA, Ukraine â€”Â In the Ukrainian tourist destination of Odessa, a port on the Black Sea, holidaymakers mingle with internally displaced people from the countryâ€™s war-torn east, local Roma, students, and economic migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus, Africa and Asia. Yet the air carries something less healthy...

A vivid account exposes the myths of the catastrophic Ukrainian famine of 1932-3The terrible famine of 1932-3 hit all the major Soviet grain-growing regions, but Ukraine worst of all. It was not the result of adverse climatic conditions but a product of government policies. This is, in fact, the case with many famines, as Amartya Sen pointed out...